| Acronym | Meaning |
| SHRIMP | Sensitive High Mass Resolution Ion Microprobe |
| MBESMO | Maximum Bond Energy Symmetry MO |
| CCMET | Coupled-cluster Many-electron Theory |
| SIFT | Selected Ion Flow Tube |
| QLDA | Quasilocal Density Functional Approxn. |
| PMR | Proportional Mortality Ratio |
| RSPT | Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory |
| EKC | Electrokinetic Chromatography |
| SPEM | Scanning Photoemission Microscopy |
| CISS | Chromosome In Situ Suppression |